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Grateful DeadGrateful Dead Live at Club Front on 1987-06-01 (June 1, 1987)

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Collection: GratefulDead
Band/Artist: Grateful Dead
Date: June 1, 1987 (check for other copies)
Venue: Club Front
Location: San Rafael, CA

Source: SBD > MC
Lineage: MC > DAT > CD
Keywords: Soundboard; Alan Fraser


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Complete rehearsals for the summer '87 tour when Bob Dylan sang as part of the Grateful Dead.

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Reviewer: jdeadhead - 5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars - December 27, 2011
Subject: Anybody found this ti download??~`
wow this is one of the best on the site, i nneed it playing in my car!!

Reviewer: PurpleBear - - October 21, 2011
Subject: club front
somebody please offer this for download somewhere...

Reviewer: E.R.C. Iceman! - 5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars - July 12, 2011
Subject: THIS HAS IT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This work is history. These sessions cover everything!!! GREAT recordings!! All the ballads are moving! Very cool to hear the band communicating.

Reviewer: Estimatedjohn - 5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars - July 10, 2011
Subject: holy cow!
O.M.G!cartwheels

Reviewer: Timothy Crawford - 4.00 out of 5 stars4.00 out of 5 stars4.00 out of 5 stars4.00 out of 5 stars - June 6, 2011
Subject: INTERESTING
Arguably one of the best songwriters ever and one of the best bands ever rehearsing. I caught a couple of these shows. they we're good - strange - weird and very interesting. Excellent stuff. I miss Jerry.

Reviewer: spikedriver - 5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars - April 16, 2011
Subject: Dylan Lovers
Definitely #45, #26, and #22.

Jerry’s guitar work on “Simple Twist of Fate” is tops and pedal steel on “Tomorrow is A Long Time” is enough to bring tears. The Joey is Dylan’s vocal extravaganza.

Reviewer: Loser_Boy - 5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars - March 10, 2011
Subject: Beautiful treasure
This is a great work from some of the best American musicians ever

Reviewer: hrsauertieg - 4.00 out of 5 stars4.00 out of 5 stars4.00 out of 5 stars4.00 out of 5 stars - October 20, 2010
Subject: Lots of fun
Unpolished and unpredictable, this is a great collection of rough cuts. The best portion is Disc 5, the dozen or so tracks prior to the Grateful Dead Hour at the end of this set. It sounds like Garcia and Dylan sessions for Down in the Groove, or at least it sounds nothing like the other rehearsal tapes, which leads me to wonder if it might be of a different provenance. It's mixed differently, and the backing band doesn't sound like the Dead -- it's tighter than one might expect, like they're session pros. Anyway, I'm just surmising here. The version of Senor where Jerry seems to be teaching the song to the band (with Dylan chiming in with backing vocals) is priceless. Very entertaining.

Reviewer: Frankie Lee - 4.00 out of 5 stars4.00 out of 5 stars4.00 out of 5 stars4.00 out of 5 stars - July 8, 2010
Subject: The French Girl
All I can say is, 'The French Girl' (track 17) may be one of the best songs on this compilation. With Jerry on pedal steel, it practically brings tears to the eyes. Its a wonderful song and Dylan even remembers the words!

I can't say that all of these songs are listenable, especially to basic Dylan and Dead fans. But for a huge Dylan and GD fan like me, I can get down on it.

'Joey' smokes, where in this version "they threw him in the hole one time, for what?? For trying to cause a strike!!"

'Walkin Down the Line' is fun but they repeat the same verses over and over.

'Heart of Mine' is a treat, especially the pedal steel version. 'John Hardy' is a Garcia-banjo-lead hoedown.

Other than that, I just discovered these tunes-so I'll need several more listens before I can review any further.

Reviewer: akadannyboy - 4.00 out of 5 stars4.00 out of 5 stars4.00 out of 5 stars4.00 out of 5 stars - May 11, 2010
Subject: Dylan representing
Anyone keeping up w/Dylan's itinerary on pollstar would know he's much more than going through the motions.He'll be 69 years old in 2 weeks and he's out there taking his poetry to the people.He's got nearly 30 shows from Limerick Ireland to Bordeaux France to Bucharest Romania this summer, and he spent last fall and winter touring the southern hemisphere.
What he's not doing is laying on his ass for 3 years doing nothing, then putting out a shitty c.d. and backing it with a 25 stadium tour and then spend most of his interviews griping about copywright infringement. Music is supposed to be played IN FRONT OF PEOPLE.
The so-called super groups live some sort of lavish lifestyle in the south of France til their pocketbooks get a little flat, then bring their tired and redundant loud acts out to back up their first c.d. in 3 years(usually 50 minutes of tedium and one catchy ditty).Yep we're talking about Eagles, Stones, aerosmith,rob zombie,and anybody else you hear crying about their genius material being downloaded

Reviewer: 4weed - 5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars - April 15, 2010
Subject: Some better than most
Alot of this sounds better than some of the live concert material... it is a real pleasure to hear this knowing it will never be officially released.... I live in San Rafael and it is magical music made here...

Reviewer: Dylan M - 5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars - March 16, 2010
Subject: Quite a find
This is more interesting than most material i have listened to from the Dylan & The Dead tour. Its hard to say why this material did not gel as well in a live concert setting.

Maybe instead of touring mostly stadiums (after all, that was Mega-Dead time) they could have booked smaller venues that could have, perhaps, better captured the ambiance that this rare gem seems to bring out.

These rehersals seemed more focused and energetic than the release, or any of the other tapes that exist. Get it!

Reviewer: WharfRatINDIANAPOLIS - 5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars - March 7, 2010
Subject: gem/feels like you're there
Feels like we're privy to something private and magical with this huge recording. Love it! Like being there for the rehearsal...

Reviewer: scottlaw - 5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars - January 12, 2010
Subject: Wow!!
As a huge Dead and Dylan fan this is tight. Much better than the Dylan & the Dead album resulting from the tour.

Anyone know where I can download this in MP3 format (I know, I am not technologically savvy)?

Reviewer: tjock - 4.00 out of 5 stars4.00 out of 5 stars4.00 out of 5 stars4.00 out of 5 stars - June 1, 2009
Subject: Bob Dylan Chronicles
Dylan mentions how the Dead pushed him to give new life to some of his old masterpieces in his great book Chronicles and how he struggled with it at club front. After reading the section, I wondered if this would be on the archive... sure enough.

Reviewer: Burnt Rich - 5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars - June 1, 2009
Subject: OH, Dear GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Much, too much. Thank you.

Reviewer: JustAFloatingSage - 5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars - May 29, 2009
Subject: VeryVeryVeryLongListen
What a sweet find...

I always had misgivings about the Dead/Dylan CD that was commercially released...The songs sounded rushed and I would emotionally flat-line....

But this compilatation is not that way....don't ask me why 'cause Dylan is still Dylan ... I always figure he'll always have that "i'm just going through the motions" attitude....

There are so many songs ... Maybe it was because my first listening ... and I'm usually spell-bound in my first listening to Dead material...but the songs are mixed up real good...

Anyway....I ain't much of a critic ... I am just so pleased I had a chance to hear this one ... I now will forever remember the Dead/Dylan combo favorably....

Reviewer: OnTrialWithJudgeReinhold - 5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars - April 11, 2009
Subject: Wow...
Great sound quality, amazing historic stuff here... No jamming, but For what it is I give it 5

Reviewer: cb18201 - 5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars - March 12, 2009
Subject: wow
there is some really great stuff here. its pretty mucha dylan dead studio album, some songs are rough, some have dylan hacking up a hair ball mid-song but for the most part there is some good playing an its great to hear jerry on the steel guitar on some tracks, highly reccomend this and the other dylan/dead shows that were just added to the archive.

Reviewer: pinecone - 5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars - March 4, 2009
Subject: Pretty Sweet
What a great bunch of songs, Keep it coming!

Notes

This 6-cd set, donated by Alan Fraser, documents all the known Dylan and Dead rehearsals from the Club Front in San Rafael, CA (June 1987) in incredible sound quality. All the songs come from soundboard cassette masters transferred to DAT, then CD-R.

The layout of the set is as follows:

Disc #1 - Prehearsals
Discs #2,3,4,5 - Main rehearsals
Disc #6 - The Grateful Dead Hour #705, broadcast week of 25 Mar 2002


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